Yang Xiaodu
| Yang Xiaodu | |
|---|---|
| 杨晓渡 | |
| Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection | |
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Assumed office January 15, 2014 | |
| Secretary | Wang Qishan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 1953 (age 62) Shanghai |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
Yang Xiaodu (Chinese: 杨晓渡; born October 1953) is a Chinese politician who served in Shanghai and Tibet. Since 2014, he has been a Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the leading anti-graft body of the Communist Party of China.
Biography
Yang was born in Shanghai in 1953. In 1970, during the Cultural Revolution, he was rusticated youth performing manual labour in Taihe County, Anhui province. In September 1973, he began studying at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He graduated in 1976 and then began working in Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet for a drug company. In 1984, he was named party chief of Nagqu Hospital. In September 1986, Yang was named deputy commissioner (vice mayor equivalent) of Nagqu. In December 1992, he was named deputy party chief of Chamdo Prefecture.
In 1995, he was named head of the finance department of Tibet Autonomous Region. In May 1998, he became Vice-Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, ascending to sub-provincial rank for the first time. In 2001, he returned to his native Shanghai and became vice mayor. He studied legal theory at the Central Party School while holding a job in Tibet.
In October 2006, he was named a member of the municipal Party Standing Committee of Shanghai and head of the municipal United Front Department; in May 2012, he was named head of the Shanghai Discipline Inspection Commission. In November 2013, having reached retirement age for sub-provincial level officials, he was named head of the 3rd Inspection Team, in charge of anti-corruption work at the Ministry of Land and Resources. In January 2014, he was elected Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.[1]
He is a member of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
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